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EDITORIAL EAGLETS.
The Grant boom in Georgia was like
that of a cannon, sudden, and then
silent.
Senator Gordon has introduced a
resolution pledging the support of
the United States totheNicarauguan
canal company.
Our Uncle Billy Revill, of the
Meriwether Vindicator, is getting to
be the most acerbitous old maid in
the whole gang. He should lubri
cate himself with balm.
And yot, some of the men, who
like John Kelly, have done all they
could to disrupt and defeat the
democratic party, whine around call
ing themselves democrats.
k _
Well yer, there is Seymour, Hen
dricks, Hancock, Sam Randall, Judge
Field, Joel Parker, S. E. Church,
with several others, one of whom
may be struck by presidential light
ning.
The democratic party has to-day a
majority of over a quarter of a mill
ion of the voting population and a
majority of the electoral votes, and
hence all that is necessary to success
is unity and harmony of action.
A Union county youth went to see
his charmer the other night, but a
rival had preceded him and dressing
himself in the fair one’s habliments,
turned the light down low and re
ceived his caresses for an hour or
two before be revealed himself.
There will probably be war in that
bailiwick.
—
The investigating committee in
the contested election case of Spof
ford against Kellogg in Louisiana
have closed their labors, and re
turned to Washington. It is thought
they have secured evidence that will
convince the honest men of all par
ties of Kellogg’s perfidy, and result
in giving Spofford his seat.
Professor Tice’s publishers, Thomp
son, Tice & Lillingston, St. Louis,
say that he has been injustly criti
cised about the failure of the mete
oric shower. They say that he did
not assert that the shower would be
general, or that it would be seen
over any great area of Country, and
that it was seen in Missouri, Indiana,
and the Indian territory.
Hon. Alexander H. Stephens has
written a letter to the Augusta Netos,
in which while repudiating numer
ous things which the newspapers
have reported him us saying, he says
he did say that the South could
further aud do worse than to take
Grant, and that he prefers him to
Tilden for president. What do the
Tilden organs say to this?
By a kind of poetic justice the
Brown brothers, in Texas, who be
longed to a band of lynchers, were
hanged on the very gallows that was
built by a mob. a dozen or more
years ago, to lynch a negro. These
Browns were in that crowd, and
helped build the scaffold for their
intended victims, but they became
such lawless men themselves that
they were finally hung on that gal
lows.
The transactions in wool at Bos
ton last week were the largest in the
history of that trade, the sales amoun
ting to nearly 6,500,000, pounds, of
which about two thirds were domes
tisc and the balance foreign. It is
believed that the manufacturers
themselves took the largest portion
of the wool sold and that it will go
direct to the factories. There was a
similar activity noted in the New
York market.
No man in the democratic party
however able, eminent or worthy,
has a pre-emption on the presidency.
When the time comes the party will
select standard-bearers for their
ability, patriotism, honesty and in
tegrity, and whose ti elity to demo
cratic principles and traditions no
one will question. Qualifications
make availability and not the par
ticular Slate or locality where the
individual may live.
The Gainesville Eagle
VOL. XIII.
THE NATION’S CAPITAL.
[Special Correspondence of theEiGCE.]
Washington, D. C , Dec. 4,1879.
Two propositions of Mr. Hayes in
his annual message to congress pro
voke opposite emotion among the
members, the one anger and the oth
er amusement. The first that to
retire greenbacks, has come very near
exciting an insurrection in the radi
cal party. Almost every western
republican senator and representative
has a resolut'on ready depresuting
any new finacc’al legislation, and the
probablityis that in a short time
such a resolution which will be a vir
tual snub to the administration, will
pass both houses bv a decided vote.
The other notable feature to the mes
sage is its extended ?efeieace to and
commendation of “Civil Service Re
form.” Weeks ago, by the way of a
joke, the Sunday Capital, of this city,
suggested that Mr. Hayes embody in
his coming message a reference to
this reform.
He has done it. A Ter three years
of the flagrant violation not only of
his own rules of the unvaried and
wholesome pactices of his predeces
sors, Mr. Hayes coolly commends to
congress the creation of new safe
guards for the purity of the service.
He will go into bisioiy for this, if
for nothing else.
Senator Gordon will speak to-day
or as soon as be can get the floor
on the subject of government protec
tion—not aid—to an American Com
pany organized to further the Nicara
gua Canal project. There will be no
objection in the house or senate if
the government is not required to be
come financially responsible.
It is believed by many congress
men and among them a not less ac
complished business man than Fer
nanda Wood, that the government
five and six per cent bonds soon to
become due, can be replaced by
bonds bearing only three and a half
per cent interest. Represenative
Garfield, however who is supposed to
speek for the administration in this
matter, recomends a four per cent
bond, and has introduced a bill
providing for such a refunding
bond.
Representaive Weaver, of Ohio,
wishes to have five or six millions of
greenbacks issued to make up to the
Union soldiers of the late war certain
supposed losses. Os the inherent
justice of the scheme it is useless to
speak, for there is no possible chance
of its becoming a law, but the occa
sion is a good one for saying that
existing and reasonable laws on the
subject are substantially a dead let
ter, because of the insufficeocy of the
men Mr. Hayes keeps in charge of
the Bureau before which such mat
ters come for adjudication. Under
Commissioner Bently, the pension
office, for instance, is simply a mob
of indirected or misdirected clerks.
The fact is notorious. The other
office by which ex-soldiers claims are
adjudicated has for its head a man
who was once able to attend to its
duties, but who for years because of
age and infirmities has been incapable
of doing so. Rex.
PARIS LEITER.
[From our Paris Correspondent.]
Paris, France, Nov. 22, 1879.
Paris has now fifteen thousand
metres of tubing laid down under
the main thoroughfares, for the pur
pose of unifying the time of all the
public clocks and setting them all by
observatory time. These pneumatic
clocks will also be placed in private
houses, and in future the time of day
will be laid on just like gas and
water.
The eminent publicist, M. Emile
de Girardin, has favored the public
with his view of the now burning
question of divorce. M. de Girardin,
speaking “in the name of the three
millions of illegitimates that exist in
France, and to the number of which
he does not conceal the fact that he
belongs,’ argues that illegitimacy is
an error of the law and not a dis
grace of the person. He conceives
the family of the future thus: First,
the mother, a dowager, and adminis
tering her own fortune in virtue of
the regime of the separation of goods
which is to become the legal regime
in France; second, equality of the
children before the mother and be
fore the law. In order to approach
this ideal, the institution of divorce
must be introduced, but merely as a
provisional means.
It has been remarked that, al
though cases are to be seen from time
to time shut, they are almost invari
ably replaced very rapidly by the
ordinary wine-shop with a zinc coun
ter, after the pattern of that of the
“Assommoir.” This is the case even
in the wealthy quarters of the town,
as well as in the newly-built parts.
The modern wine case is often just as
luxurious as the case; the only differ
ence is the'presence of a zinc counter
Or bar, where you can take a stand
ing drink. The increase in the num
ber of these wine-shops is becoming
alarming; and, although a drunken
i© rarely wen in th© Btr©©t© ©f
GAINESVILLE, GA., FRIDAY MORNING. DECEMBER 12, 1879.
Par’s, the hospital doctors will tell
you that alcoholization threatens to
become a veiy grave element in the
depopulation of France. A man who
.drinks three or four litres of red
wine every day will become alcohol
ized in time, just as effectually as the
hab'tual drinker.
The Petit National continues to
publish its series of the revelations
of returned communists about the
punishments in use in New Caledo
nia. Further instances are quoted
of the Bastonnade, and a new kind
of torture is described as being ap
plied in Cayane. It is called the
courbaril. The courbaril is a tree,
out of the wood of which this instru
ment of torture is made. The pun
ishment appears to consist in expos
ing the victim attached to the cour
baril, under the rays of the sum
This, it is stated, was the favorite
punishment under the empire.
A compositor named Machadier
an amnestied communist, who re
turned home on the Navarin, and
who died in the hospital, was buried
to-day. A radical journal invited
the people of Paris to make his fu
neral the occasion of a manifestation
in favor of plenary amnesty. About
fifty persons followed the corpse, and
a few cries of “Vive I’amnestie I” were
uttered.
Tte’-e is some talk of M. Paul
Meurice replacing M. Dequesnel as
manager of the Odion. In the event
of this appointment being made, the
first piece produced would probably
be “Les Burgi aves,” M. Victor Hugo
himself superintending the rehear
sals. The poet’s “Cromwell” and
“Torquemada” have also been spoken
of as possible novelties; but the
former contains no less than 9,000
lines, and would require modifica
tions, which the author would not be
inclined to introduce, while M. Hugo
has always declared that “Torque
mada” should never be played during
his lifetime.
MARRYING FOR MONEY.
Addie Arlington looked at herself
in the nriror, and then turned away
with a little smile of happy satisfac
tion, and rippled over into a joyous
laugh as she caught her cousin El
lie’s eyes.
“You are thinking I am vain as a
peacock, aren’t you, Ellie? Well, I
do look well, don’t I ? And I’m aw
fully glad of it, because, cousin mind,
it will be all the easier for me to come
off victorious in the campaign I hav >
laid out for mvself during my three
months’ vis’t with you.”
She spoke with a charming frank
ness that made Miss Nelistoa smile
back in the lovely, girlish face.
“And what may your plans be,
Addie? Os course it is a settled
question that you are to take New
York by storm. You know, of course,
that your pretty face will secure that
happiness to you. But further than
that, what, little mischief maker?”
She looked fondly, proudly at Ad
die, whose dusky eyes were glowing
like stars.
“Ob, only my arrangement for the
chief end of woman—marriage, 1
tell you, Ellie, lam goiag to make
my hay while the sun shines—in
other wor \s, while I’m in New York
I am going to secure some rich, oh,
some awfujly rich fellow, who can
just smother me with diamonds aud
dresses, and give me all the money I
want —enough to buy everything I
can think of I”
Miss Neliston laughed at the girl’s
honest enthusiasm.
“You rapacious little cormorant!
You certainly have erected a very
ambitious standard, but I cannot see
who or where the desirable party is.
I am quite sure you deserve just what
you want, dear; but the question is,
can you get it ?”
Addie shrugged her pretty shoul
ders
“Ellie, I shall get it! I know I
just exact my own worth. Now don’t
put me down as a vain, silly creature
because I frankly admit I regard my
self good looking and quite desirable
for a wife generally. I am fairly
good natured, am I not, Elsie ? And
I ought to have a good husband,
ought n’t I ?”
She leaned her soft, fair cheek ca
ressingly on Miss Neliston’s face.
“Indeed you ought, my darling;
and if I could I would conjure one
to order for you. Addie, you are
beautiful enough to win the highest
and best in the land.”
Ard she was very beautiful—and
all the mors so that she was not the
least vain of her charm.
Standing there, beside the dressing
mirror, in her evening dress of deli
cate pink silk, with her fair white
arms bare just below the dimpled
elbow, the dainty hands cased in
creamy kids, the joyous, happy face,
whose features were so exquisite,
whose complexion was so richly
warm and satiny in its pale brunette
beauty, whose eyes were so deeply
dusk and lustrous and eiger, Addie
Arlington was certainly sweet enough
and winsome enough to fully warrant
Miss Neliston’s loving assertion.
“If only there was anybody rich
enough in or about New York, un
married, to satisfy you, Addie I ’
Addie laughed.
“I’ll tell y>u a secret, Ellie. I'm
going to take my fort by storm, and
when you see me the betrothed bride
of an English milord, Ellie—”
Miss Neliston gave a gasp of posi
tive horror at the girl’s audacity.
“Addie Arlington, you don't mean
you actually have designs on the il
lustrious guest that the Van Rensel
laers are expecting—the English no
bleman all New York are on the qui
vive about ?”
The girl’s silvery laugh accompa
nied a very defiantly positive shake
iof her silken skirts, a© if that grace-
fal little gesture added incontrovert
ible emphasis.
“Exactly, cousin Ellie. You need
u’t look so horrified. I'm sure the
prospects of having a Lady Grosvenor
in the family ought to delight you.”
But Miss Neliston was too taken
aback to enjoy the prospective honor.
“Addie, how wild you do talk! The
idea! Why, you have never seen
him; you don’t know whether he ii
young or old, a gentleman or a—a—
not a gentleman. Suppose he is old,
and fat, and ugly, and short breathed
like papa’s British friend, Sir William
Wiggleton ?”
“The charming estate everybody
knows Lord Grosvenor owns, and his
rent roll of a hundred thousand dol
lars a year, and his wonderful mines
in Wales, and his treasures of costly
elegance in his town bouse in Park
Lane, and his country houses in Sus
sex and Cornwall, will cure all these
defects, Ellie. Come, we’ll be late
at Jennie Jernyngham’s, and you
know Jennie always expects me the
first of any one.”
“And so does Jennie’s brother ! I
am ready, Addie.”
The music, hid in a covert of ferns
and rose trellises, was playing a love
ly fantasia, in tow, soil, ueimicusi
chords, and dozens of couples wertf 1
promenading the suites of rooms,
Addie Arlington and Fred Jernyng
ham among them, and the young
gentleman evidently not delightfully
interested in the tenor of the young
lady’s animated conversation.
“Why, he is J’e handsomest man I
ever saw in my life ! Os course I’ll
except you, Fred I” and the pearly
teeth twinkled in a smile for a sec
ond. “But I want to hear his name.
I want to know about him. Fred, is
he rich?”
It was impossible for matter of fact
young Jernynguam to understand
whether or not Addie was in earnest.
“His name is—Melton; and I know
noth’ng whatever about him, except
that he is a member of an engineer
’og corps at present in the city. I
don’t B©e what there is about him so
rewa’-kajily handsome.”
He glared at the unconscious tar
get of bis and Addie’s eyes with a
scowl that delighted her.
“You’re not to be supposed to see
any masculine attraction beyond your
own, Freddie. But if he is only an
engineer—hark 1 that’s our wal z.’’
And off they glided, a faint flush
on Addie’s cheeks, as Mr. Melton’s
handsome blue eyes caught hers and
held her glance a second, despite her
self.
That was the way it began; and a
month later, when New York society
was stirred to its soul by the deferred
advent of Cuthbert Gj osvener, Miss
Neliston wondered why it was that
Addie’s enthusiasm had so complete
ly died out.
“You’re a to me, Addie,”
she said, as they drove home from
the crush at Mrs. Reasel ser’s on the
occasion of Lord Grosvenor’s com
plimentary reception.
And for the first time, Addie’s re
ply was a little snarp:
“I don’t see where the mystery is,
I’m sure. Whatever there is about
a little, fat, bald-headed old man to
admire, I can’t see.”
“But he’s a lord, all the same, Ad
die.”
“No, it’s not all the same, Ellie.
How insufferably hot the rooms were
to-night! I had the most wretched
beadache.
The next afternoon a magnificent
coach and pair, with the armorial
t earings of the house of Silverland
—Lord Grosvenor’s illustrious fami
ly-—with coachman and footman, in
his lordship’s livery of silver and
maroon, drew up at Miss Neliston’s
door, and the little, fat, puffy old
gentleman descended to pay his com
pliments to the prettiest girl of the
night before—the only girl who had
at all interested him —Addie Arling
ton.
After that—well, Ellie hardly knew
Addie, so variable and capricious she
grew; now in the wildest spirits,
again dejected and petulant, until
one day there came by one of the
liveried servants a written proposal
of marriage, on a satiny sheet of pa
per, bearing a crest and a monogram
in silver and maroon, and signed in a
little, crabbed, spidery hand, “Gros
venor”—a letter that offered her, in
a very gentlemanly, unenthusiastic
way, all the grand, good things that
had been her sole aim in life to pos
sess and enjoy.
While by mail, not ten minutes
later, had come another letter, that
made the girl's heart thrill and all
her pulse stir, as she read the pas
sionate prayer for herself to be given
to the man who loved her—Philip
Melton, with his handsome face and
his salary as an engineer.
For several hours, Ellij wondered
what Addie was doing so long in her
room, and then, by and by, she came
softly down stairs, a sweet flush on
her face, a pride in her eyes, a thrill
of perfect content in her voice.
“Ellie, dear, I want to tell you. I
have refused Lord Grosvenor’s offer
of marriage, and accepted Phil p.”
“If you will permit me, might I
ask why you decline my offer ?” Lord
Grosvenor said, an hour later, when,
her gentle refusal having reached
him by messenger,-he post-hasted to
the house.
And Addie’s lips trembled with
ac ual happiness and pride as she
answered, with a sweetness that was
charming:
“Because, sir, I—l loved Mr. Mel
ton best. You won’t be angry
“Mr. Melton ! A fellow on a sal
ary !’’
"Pardon me, my “lord—a gentle
man, rich in nobility, in goodness,
and in love for me.”
“Oh, that s it! But about the
money ? Miss Arlington, there is not
a wish in the world that shall remain
a moment ungratified, that money
can procure, if you will honor me.”
“I shall want only what Philip can
give me, sir.”
“Then, Miss Arlington, I am to
consider my answer absolute ? You
positively decline to become Lady (
Grosvenor, to live at Silverland Park,
to be a lady of London society ?”
Sh© smiled sweetly, proudly.
“I am sure I have decided. I
thank you for the great honor you
have bestowed upon me. I shall be
proud of it all my life, but I cannot,
because I love Philip MeKon. more
than all the world and what is in it.”
“Addie, my true little darling!
Addie, little love!’’
Then Phil ; p Melton stepped out
from behind the curtains of the bay
window, and took her in his arms,
his handsome face all smiling and
proud as he turned to Lord Grosve
nor.
“I told you so, sir! See loves me
and is true and sweet in her loyalty
to the man she loves ! Addie, per
haps you will not mind so verj much
that after all you will be Ltdy Gros
venor some day ! For Lord Gosve
nor here is my father, and I am
Ihiiip Melton Silverland, next in
su jeession. Addie, you will not be
angry with ns for our little ruse ?
We had heard you were so desper
ately determined to marry money,
and the moment I saw you I knew
tnere was a heart that would conquer
ambition—a heait I wanted to con
quer on my own merits.’’
A J die listened bewildered, and
Lord GrosveaouJaughed.
Sless vour bright eyes, child, you
Nearly tempted me to be treacherous
to Silverland there. But you will
not refuse me for a father in-law, I
hops J?”
And in her almost royal home, Ad
die is happy as the summer days are
long and shining.
The Child on the Door Step.
“Did she leave any children ?”
“Yes. this bit of a child.”
“And who’ll i ake her ?”
“I don’t know. We are all very
poor around here, sic, but we must
find her a place somewhere. God
help the little girl, for she’s all alone
now 1”
The sexton had called at an old
tenement house on LaFayette street
east to tale a body to a pauper’s
field —the body of one whose life had
been woni out in the tread-m* l ! of
hunger and despair. Nobody knew
that lbe mother was dead—hardly
suspected (hat she was ill, until one
morning this child appeared at a
neighbor’s door and quietly said:
“Would you be afraid to come
over to my house, for ma is dead
and I’m keeping awful still, and I’m
afraid to talk to her when she won’t
answer ?”
The mother had been dead fou
hours. Long enough before day came
the flame of life had burned low and
died out, and that child, hardly 7
years old, had been with the corpse
through the long hours, clasping the
cold hand, kissing the white face and
calling for life to return. When
they asked if she had any friends
she jshjook her head. When they
told her she was alone in the great
world she looked out of the old w n
dow on tbe bleak November day and
answered:
“I can make three kinds of dresses
for doll-babies, build fires and carry
in wood, and I’ll work ever so hard
if somebody will let me live with
them! ”
There was no funeral. There was
no need of a sermon there. The
lines of sorrow around the dead wo
man’s mouth counted for more in
heaven than any eulogy man could
deliver. There was no crape. In
place of it three or four honest-hearted
women lat their tears fall upon the
white face and whispered:
“Poor mother—poor child !”
The child’s big blue eye£ were full
of tears, but there was hardly a trem
or in her voice as she nestled her
warm cheek against the lips stilled
forever and said:
“Good-bye, ma—you’ll come down
from heaven every night at dark,
won’t you, and you’ll take me up
ther<; just as soon as you can, won’t
you ?”
The landlord locked up the house,
and the child Went home with one of
the women. When night came she
stole out of the house and away from
those who sought to comfort her,
and going back to the old house she
sat down on the door step, having
no company but the darkness. An
officer passed that way, and leaning
over the gate he peered through the
darkness at something on the step
and called out:
“Is anybody there?”
“Nobody but a little girl!’’ came
the answer.
“Who is it ?”
“It’s a little girl whose ma was
buried to-day!”
He opened the gate and went
closer, and as he made out her lit
tle bare head and-innocent face he
said:
“Why, child, aren’t you afraid ?”
“I was afraid a little while ago,”
she said, “but just as soon as I asked
ma not to let anything hurt me I
got right over it. Wou’d anybody
dare hurt a little girl whose ma is
dead? They could be tooken up,
couldn’t they ?’’
He offered to go with her to the
hou?e where she was to have a borne
for a few days, and taking his big
hand with the utmost confidence she
walked beside him and said:
“I aint’t going to cry much till
I get to bed, where folks can’t see
me!”
“I hope every one will be good to
you,” he remarked as he. put his
band over her curly head.
“If they don’t be, they’ll never
go to heaven, will they?’’ she
queried.
“No.”
“There was a long pause, and then
she said:
“But I guess they will be. I can
make a doll out of a clothes-pin and
a piece of calico, and I guess some
body will be glad to let me live with
’em. If you see me over on the step
some other night you needn't be a
bit afraid, fori ain’t big enough to
hurt anybody, even if I didn’t want
to cry all the time.!’’
At the last census taken the popu
lation of Paris was 2,037,000: during
the last ten years it has increased at
the rate of 12,000 a year—a very
modest one compared with that of
London or New York*
The Human Ear.
Prof. G. F. Foster, of Carbon
dale, Hl., gives the following descrip
tion of the human ear: The inter
nal ear is a wonderland, a diminu
tive one, it is true, but really great
—astonishingly great in its very
liitleuess—a fairy land, full of the
realizations of dreams, to be found
in oriental story. In a space of less
than one-half of a cubic inch, excava
tea ont of tbe petrous portion of the
temporal bone, there are to be found
curiosities which the finest museum
in the world eannot afford. In the
vestibule are miniature lakes; here,
with pebbly otoconia or otolothes
bathed in its depth, there with whole
forest of hair-like rods, looking like
clusters of reeds, growing in tbe
shallow water of some pond, while
the whole is almost constantly tre
mulous with wavslets of sound trans
mitted from the objective world
within. Here in one place are to be
found peculiar winding canals, each
swelling at one extiemity into
strange, vase-like dilations, or am
pulla), while in another hangs a chain
of minute bones, curious caricatures
of familar objects, all united togetb
er by the smallest, ligament, and
moved by muscles so tiny' that each
will scarcely weigh more.than a sin
gle grain. Here in a recess of the
bony cave, stands a wonderful small
sbeel tower, with several pairs of
spiral stairs, or scallrn, leading from
the base, around a modiolus of bone
to the helicotremous summit. Nor
does tnis tower lack for rooms, or
windows, or doors. Here, within a
peculiar spiral room, with a bony
ledge for a floor, the basilar mem
brane for a carpet, and the mem
brane tectoria for the ceiling, we
find the most minute, and yet one
of the most exquisitely formed, musi
cal instruments in all the world—a
veritable harp or plane, with no less
than three thousand strings, so won
derfully formed, so delicately adjus
ted, that it trembles in responsive
action to the slightest sound—now
vibrating with tremulous delight as
the incoming waves of sweet and
delicious music floai over its strings;
then grating with tremulous disgust
as the passage of hard and discor
dant noise. Ever faithful and true
to its trust.it imitates perfectly every
sound which comes to it from the
outside world. Beneath the sound
ing board of this delicate little in ■
strument is a nervous arrangement,
which far outrivals the powers of the
celebrated telephone. Here innum
erable pearl-white threads of phila
ments attached io the harp strings of
corslan fibers, bear onward in some
mysterious manner, all the music of
tbe instrument above, in all its orig
inal accuracy and distinctness, with
all i + s variations in pitch and quali
ty, and here by a process, imitated in
tbe pnoiiograph, the music is sealed
up, end properly labeled, and stored
away ia some one of the secret re
cesses of the brain, to reappear again,
it may bo, scores of yoars there
at'er.
A Wedding Ring.
The other day, when a young man
had pulled off two big mittens from
his bands an I stuck one into each
pocket and backed up to the coal
s ove iu a Woodward avenue jewelry
store, he had still sufficient strength
to ask if they kept finger-rings there
The jeweler might just as well have
replied tvat he did not, but that
finger-rings could be found at any
boot and shoe store; yet, he wanted
to make a sale and he answered:
“We do. What sort of a ring do
you want?”
“It is for a wedding.’’
“Ah! Will you have a single dia
mond or a cluster?”
“I’spose you’d want two or three
dollars for a real diamond ring?” re
marked the lover, as he advanced to
the tray.
He was carefully and tenderly in
formed that diamonds had gone up
considerably since they were used in
his baby rattle-box, and then he con
cluded to explain:
“I’m kinder down on all such non
sense as weddiug-rings. When a
fellow has to get a whole suit of
clothes, pay the preacher, come to
town and ride on the street cars and
all that, ti’s-expense ’nuff. 1 s’pose,
though, 111 have t > get one.’*
“About what price?”
“Oh, fifty cents or six shilling, or
ground there. If its kinder gilded
"up to last two weeks that’ll do. It
hadn’t orter turn rusty under three
of four days, anyhow, as she’ll want
to show it off on the street cars, and
all the girls will be handling it, I’ll
look at the fifty-cent ones first,”
The jeweler went into a decline
He declined to admit that he ever
had such a thing in his store. He
farther said that ne could hardly be
lieve that there was a young man on
earth who would buy a fifty-cent ring
to put on the finger of his brido.
“Do you ’spose,” replied the young
man as he reached for his mittens,
“do you ’spose Fm a John Jacob As
tor? Do you ’spose I’m going to sell
a hull crop of ’taters td bay a ring
for my wife to wear washin’ dishes
and turnin’ the coffee-mill? She’s
layin’ off now to have me buy her
shoes, hat, must and purfumery after
we’re married, and do you thick I
can rush in here and holler out ’dia
monds!’ end slam down wads of green
backs to pay for ’em?”
The jeweler leaned his pensive head
on his hand and looked out of the
window, and as the young man open
ed the door he halted and continued:
“Fifty-cent ring! Just as if fifty
cents wasn’t nothing to’rds a bridle
lower! ’
A family of emigrants were found
occupying a tomb in eTcemetery near
Providence, R. 1., that had been left
open. When discovered they had
had possession a week, and were
using the coffin shelves to put their
dishes on.
Yes, it is time the word “boom’’
was taken by the neck and pitched in
to the thicket of obscurity after
“hardly ever.” It is a great deal
better to say that busincs* is on the
git.
Wliat a Woman Cm 80.
As a wife and mo her, woman
makes the fo.tune and happiness of
her husband and children; and, if
she did nothing else, snreh tnis
would be svfiie.'ent destiny. By her
thrift, prudence and <act she can se
cure to her partner and to he. self a
compe euce n old age, no ma ter
bow small their beginn’ng or bow
adverse a fa.e may be tue’rs. By
her cheerfulness she can lesioie her
hueband’s spirit, shaken by the
anxiety of business. By ner tender
care sue can often restore him to
health if disease has overtasked bis
powers. By her counsel and Jove
she can win him from bad company,
if temptation in an evil hour has led
him astray. By her examples, her
precepts, and her sex’s insight into
character she can mould her chil
dren, however adverse their disposi
tions, into noble men and women.
And, by leading a true and beautiful
life she can refine, elevate and spirit
ualize all who come within reach; so
that, with others of her sex emula
ting and assisting her, sue can do
more Co regenerate the world than
all the statesmen or reformers that
ever legislated. She can do m n eb,
alas I perhaps more, to degrade man
if she chooses to do it. Who can
estimate the evils that woman has
the power to do ? As a wife she can
ruin herself by extravagance, folly,
or want of affection. She can make
a demon or an outcast of a man who
might otherwise become a good mem
ber of society. She can bring bick
erings, strife and discord into what
has been a happy home. She can
change the innocent babes into vile
men and women. She can lower the
moral tones of society itself, and
thus polute legislation at the spring
head. She can, in fine, become an
instrument of evil instead of good.
Instead of making dowers of truth,
purity, beauty and spirituality spring
up in her footsteps, till the earth
smiles with a loveliness that is al
most celestial, she can transform it
to a black and arid aesert, covered
with the scorn of all evil passion and
swept by the blast of everlasting
death. This is what woman can do
for the wrong as well as for the
right. Is her mission a little one?
Has she no worthy work as has be
come the cry of late? Man may
have a harder task to perform, a
rougher road to travel, but he has
noue loftier or mor j influential than
woman’s.
A Query Regarding the Social
Code.
A lady asks: “Do you think it po
lite or evidence of good breeding for
a gentleman to caU for only one
young lady when there may be two
or three others at the residence, un
lass be comes as one betrothed or
has that object in view ? Ought ho
not to ask for the others or bring
other male friends to help him enter
tain ?’’
It depends on circumstances. Cour
tesy is largely dependent on common
sense, and that precious article hates
to be bored. Social visits are prin- ,
cipally made for pleasure. When
they are reduced to business, they
become terribly wearisome. If on
every occasion a man has to hunt up i
friends for the purpose of entertain- I
ing several ladies, or is compelled to i
cal] for three or more, when he de
sires to converse with only one, visit
ing becomes a nuisance. The pol
ished man of the world, with that
tact and delicacy whic i ever seeks to j
avoid wounding the feelings of oth
ers, will ask for the “ladies of the
house. One with less experience 1
may ask for the one he wishes and
violate neither politeness nor good i
breeding. Our fair correspondent
must know that two is company and
three is a crowd, and when there is a
visiting lady, and a gentleman calls,
who has not done eo previously, or
for along period, the same tact would
suggest a graceful leaving of the
pair together. The true idea of po
liteness is to surrender something of
one’s own happiness over to promote
that of others. Duty visiting is the
most tedious of labor. Greater li
cense is allowed fami’iars than stran
gers.—• Columbus Enquirer.
—
True, Every Word —Poor ;and
Proud.
Young men out of business are
sometimes hampered by pride. Many
young men who go west take more
pride than money—and bring back
all the pride and no money at all. A
young man that “works for his
board,” no matter what honest work
he does, has no reason for shame.
A young man who eats the bread of
idleness, no matter how much money
he has, is disgraced. AU young men
starting in life ought to aim, first of
all, to find a place where they can
earn their bread and butter, with
hoe, axe, spade, wheelbarrow, curry
comb, blacking-brush—no matter
how. Independence first. The
bread and butter question settled,
let the young man perform his duty
so faithfully as to attra st attention,
and let him constantly keep his eyes
open for a chance to do better
A. out ha’f the poor proud young
men, and two-thirds of the poor dis
couraged young mtn, are always out
of work. The young man who pock
ets his pride, and carries an upper
lip as stiff as a cast iron door-step
scraper, need not starve," and stands
a good chance to become rich.
The hair of the presidents from
Washington to Pierce is preserved in
the- Patent Office at Washington.
Washington’s is purs white and fine
in texture. Jefferson’s is a mixture
|of white and aubcrn and rather
i course, as also is the hair of “Old
Hickory.” The custom of preserving
the presideeiiai locks was abs- idoned
in Buchanan’s time. How it "arose,
and way the. Patent Office was the
repository selected, it xyould be in
teresting to know.
- ■ - —♦ •**>
The London Echo makes the state-,
ment, based on the reports of Brit
ish consuls, mat American cotton
goods are driving English cotton
i goods out of the markets of GiiXllC
smalubits
Or Va-.ioMS Kind, Carelessly T.-rown
Together.
Lots of cider wiii feel worked up
this fall, r
New cider, buckwheat cakes and
- mince pie.
Chickens stuffed wi'h oysters
, ought to feel good.
The more butter goes down the
faster the price goes up.
' And. now lhe r eis a molasses “rin' ,’*
. and prices are up.
. The Ohio river has been so low
that even ducks grounded on sand
bars.
No one is ever so color-blind as to
mistake a copper for a twenty-shill
ing piece.
A railroad engineer can do what
a la lor can’t—make up time in the
latest and most fashionable style.
One good feature about Chinese
cooks is that they never waste anv
grease, but put it all on their hair.
Queen Victoria fakes a womanly
interest in hearing who has a new
dress, who made it and how much it
cost.
You can’t please a Detroit lady
more than to say to her: “A bird
on the hat is worth two in the
bush.”
Horseradish is now put up in
such fancy style that one can hardly
tell wnen he is getting hold of co
logne.
When you send a communication
to a newspaper always tel) the editor
he need not publish it if he doesn’t
want to.
It is seldom that a street car dri
ver wants any new planks in his plat
form. He makes his politics conform
to the old one.
“Are you registered ?’’ If not, go
straight to some four dollar p, day
hotel and do your duty and take the
best room in the house.
It is necessary to the success of
any booming candidate that he keep
at it and never grow weary. Early
and late he must boom.
Only one year more to presiden
tial election I How the four sessions
of the year do chase each other into
the dim closets of the past!
“That saws my boat in two!” re
plied a prisoner when sentenced to
state prison by the recorder in De
troit. His honor seemed to twig.
When two ships collide at sea
the testimony is just as conflicting
as when two women pull hair over
the gate. Nobody can tell who is to
blame.
The old-fashioned weJI-sweep still
finds favor in New Hampshire, where
all the women are left-handed and
all the pumps are made the other
way.
. A hard-working girl who was re
cently married in Groton, N. Y.,
bought the groom s wedding clothes,
paid the marriage fee and all other
expenses.
A Nebraska monument to a horse
thief is simply a stake at the head
of a grave and a sign reading: “IL
would have been cheaper for him to
go afoot.”
The price of tin has advanced ten
per cent, in two months, and the fail
of a dish-pan at midnight is now
warranted to wake up a whole neigh
borhood.
The man who told a prospective
purchaser of his house that the
neighborhood was healthy, didn’t
know he was talking to an under
taker.
Between a pair of skates or a
hand-sled every well-regulated boy
should choose his sled. You cant
get a painting of a runaway horse on
a pair of skates.
It is strange that some one hasn’t
discovered away to petrify ths bod
ies of great men, so that they can be
set up on pedestals in place of
bronzes. There’s money in it.
In London they will put any man
m wax as big as life for ten dollars.
In this country they will wax any
man for a nickel. Stick to America
if you would be happy.
It is calculated that nothing can
live in Saturn with more brains
than a fish. That, however, does
not discourage a man who is fool
ish enough to go up in a balloon.
You can shorten a courtship at
least a year by presenting the fe
male with a big locket from the
nearest dollar store and dropping
a hint that it cost about twenty dol
lars.
“I don’t have enough religion to
brag of,’’ says an old Nevada miner,
“but I never get into the cage to go
up or down without feeling bow
puny I am and how great my maker
is.’’
A Buffalo school teacher went
fishing all onr holiday week and nev
er had a bite One of his scholars
slipped out of school for two hours
and caught thirty-six pounds of
black bass.
Ten years time and 20,000 sepa
rate pieces are" about all that one
woman can crowd into one bed quilt
into this cold world, and when her
work is done the quilt is worth at
least five dollars.
Jonas Saunders, of Indiana, tied a
cow’s legs to keep her from kicking
over the milk pail, and when she
tried to kick she fell over on him and
broke his back. There is such a
thing as being too smart.
If boy’s boots were made of cast
-ron, covered with tar and gravel and
then painted four coats and var
nished, mothers would still have
cause to wonder how on earth “that
boy” got his feet sopping wet.
An Edinburgh woman, who had
her husband before the magistrate
for beat’ng her, showed his honor a
book of dates which proved that she
had been beaten 920 times in four
years. The husband was sent to
jail for three days.
Says the Cincinnati Commercial-.
“This is the season for duck hunting.
Young men will take notice. The
ducks that are most worn now on
< the left elbow are those with dark
hair and black eyes. But there are
some ducks with large blue eyes and
i golden hair that are quite too aw-
JLES vficeut.”
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